The music industry
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[edit] What / Who is the Music industry ?
- Artists
- Musicians
- Composers
- Recording companies e.g EMI, Warner, Virgin etc
- 'Publishers' eg. Bossey & Hawkes
- Agents aka managers
- Retailers
- Traditional, such as Tower records
- New players, such as iTunes
- Consumers
- Movie industry
- Radio
- End listeners/buyers
[edit] Why does the music industry exist?
So that free loaders and listen to free music downloaded on the internet
[edit] How does it operate?
- Regulation?
- Genre handling, A dual standard?
- Solely music?
[edit] Legal issues
- Copyright and Free content
- Artist rights
- Publisher control of industry?
[edit] Responses to the music industry
- The age of micro-recording (see Getting started with sound recording)
- Napster, iTunes, MySpace...
- Alternative media
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